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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle... The ‘all in your head’ brigade are trying to create an alibi for themselves, by saying that CBT is really something that can help people with ME, and by extension Corona ‘long haulers’, to deal with the symptoms. As others have said above, they used to claim it, along...

I'm writing something on this business, and here's a bit that I think might be pertinent, leading on from Garner's having 'looked down the barrel of the ME/CFS gun and disarmed it': Let’s present an analogy. I left school at the age of 16 with five O Levels, having made a complete pig’s ear of...

Professor Paul Garner of miraculous recovery from Corona Virus ‘long haul’ fame, co-signs a letter endorsing Graded Exercise Therapy, Guardian, 11 March 2021: Dr Joanna Herman is right to call out the lack of care being offered to sufferers of long Covid (People with long Covid urgently need...

I submitted this to the BMJ blog, it's still awaiting moderation several hours later: I am glad that Professor Garner has recovered from his illness, and I do hope that his recovery will be permanent. I am, however, concerned that he claims that his recovery from ME/CFS has been facilitated by...

An interesting thing about the SMC is that it was not set up by Spiked as one of its hydra-heads, but has become one of them, with Spikies doing the office work. I'm not sure of the process by which this was done. At first glance, the SMC's championing of junk science on ME/CFS seems...

I agree with this, and, my being an RCP supporter in the 1980s, I know all too well the methodology and the behaviour of the old party -- the constant quest to be different, the contrarianism, the 100 per cent certainty, the black-and-white and no grey areas in between approach, all of which I...

The Science Media Centre should not be seen as authoritative science organisation -- or a serious organisation at all. It is one of the many supposedly neutral-sounding bodies that are the product of the degeneration and disintegration of a once left-wing organisation, the Revolutionary...